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JAWES W. SNEDEKER, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN WALLACE PAGE, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN. V

MACHINE FOR WEAVING WIRE FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,180, dated February '7, 1905,

Application filed October 16,1903. Serial No. 177,299.

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Be it known that I, JAMES N. SNEDEKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Adrian, in the county of Lenawee. State of b'iichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for \Veaving \Vire Fabric; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to. the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to machines for weaving wire fabric; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out particularly in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a machine of the character above described which is more expressly adapted for the weaving of wire fencing and wherein the arrangement is such as to afford a continuous operation of the loom and enable the stay-wires to be fed into the machine in straight lengths, cut, and wrapped around the longitudinal wires, obviating the necessity of coiling the stay-wires in the form of bobbins, as ordinarily practiced.

The object of the invention also comprehends a machine havingsuch an arrangement and operative function as to facilitate the weaving of wire fencing, to carry the fabric through the machine while the stay-wires are woven therein, and to render the macl'iinerapid, efficient, and of practical utility.

The above object is attained by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine involving my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the end of the machine from which the linished fabric is delivered. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the main frame and a portion of the traveling bed, parts being broken away. Fig. 1 is an enlarged elevation of a portion of one end of the machine, showing the feed-wheels which carry the stay-wire into the machine and their d riving-gears. Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary view, partly in seetion,of the bedshifting mechanism, showing the position of the parts at the beginning of the longitudinal movement of thebed. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the position of parts upon the point of being returned to their normal position. Fig. 7 is a perspective view in detail of one end of the shuttle, showing it in position in one of the rotary heads in which it is caused to revolve in winding the lateral or stay wires around the longitudinal wires of the fabric.

v Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the opposite end of the shuttle. Fig. 9 is a transverse section through a portion of the frame and through one of the endless carriers upon which is supported the mechanism that carries the shuttle from one to another of thelongitudinal wires. Fig. 10 is a similar view of the mechanism for carrying the opposite end of said shuttle. Fig. 11 is a longitudinal section through said parts as on line 11 11 of Fig. 10. Fig. 12 is a detail of one of the gear-wheels employed to drive the rotary heads in which the shuttles are rotated to wrap the transverse wires around the longitudinal wires. Fig. 13 is a detail in elevation ofa portion of the frame carrying said rotary heads, showing the clamping-jaws which hold the end of the wire while the initial wrap around the lirst of the longitudinal wires is being made. Fig. 14: is a sectional view as on line 11 H of Fig. 13. Fig. 15 is a fragmentary view in perspective of a portion of the carrier, the driving-rack, and the mechanism for carrying and releasing the shuttle as it travels from one to another of the longitudinal wires. Fig. 16 is a plan view of a portion of the machine, showing the longitudinal tubes through which the warpwires pass and a shuttle lying in the heads of one of said tubes and parallel therewith. Fig. 17 is an enlarged fragmentary view, partly in section, of the wire-feeding mechanism through the medium of which the stay-wires are fed into the shuttles preparatory to the passage of the shuttles through the machine. Fig. 18 is a plan view of a portion of Fig. 17. Fig. 19 is a perspective view of one of the pinions adapted to rotate the heads carrying the tubes through which the longitudinal wires pass. Fig. 20 is a view of the mechanism for carrying the shuttles through the machine and returning them to the point of starting. Fig. 21 is a view of one of the collars mounted on the longitudinal tubes and adapted to receive the tube of the shuttle to prevent the flirting of the shuttle-tube when rotated. Fig. 22 is a detail in perspective, showing the operation of wrapping the stay-wires upon the longitudinal wires of the fabric.

Referring to the characters of reference 1 designates the main frame, which may be of any suitable structure and upon which the operative mechanism is mounted. Crossing the frame transversely and suitably journaled therein is a main shaft 2, carrying a belt-pulley 3, adapted to be driven from any suitable source of power. Mounted upon the main shaft, at each end thereof, isa pinion t. These pinions mesh with the large gear-wheels 5, mounted upon opposite ends of the countershaft 6, which is also suitably journaled in the frame.

Movement is imparted to the operative parts of the machine through the mutilated beveled gears 7 and 8, mounted upon the countershaft 6 in opposed relation and having alternating intermittent engagement with the beveled pinions 9 and 10, respectively, on the ends of the shafts 11 and 12, journaled in the frame and extending longitudinally thereof. Upon the projecting end of shaft 11 is a long spur-gear 13, and upon the end of shaft 12 is a similar gear 14 for purposes hereinafter described.

J ournaled in suitable casings 15, mounted upon the main frame, are antifriction-rollers 16, adapted to support the traveling bed 17 or frame which rests thereon, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The traveling-bed 17 carries the weaving portion of the operative mechanism of the machine and is made to reciprocate longitudinally upon the main frame through the operation of the mutilated pinion 18, mounted upon the shaft 6 (see Figs. 5 and 6) and adapted to have engagement with the rack 19, mounted on the traveling bed, in conjunction with the short rack section 20, mounted upon the inner face of the depending bracket 21, secured to said traveling bed and engaged by the cogged arm 22, also secured on the shaft 6 and turning therewith and with the gear 18,- there being an oblong opening 23 through said bracket at this point forming, in conjunction with a correspondingopening in the traveling bed, a way in which the shaft 6 lies and by reason of which provision is made for the reciprocatory movement of the bed.

To provide for carrying the traveling bed or frame between the point of disengagement of the driving parts for moving it in one direction and the engagement of the driving parts for moving it in the opposlte direction,

back at a much higher'rate of speed.

a second arm 24: is employed, which is made fast to the sha t 6 in line with the cogged arm 22 and the mutilated pinion 18. end of said arm 2 is journaled an antifrictionroller 25, which is adapted to engage in the guideways 26 and 27, formed upon the inner face of the bracket 21 as the arm 24 swings in the arc of a circle through the rotation of the shaft 6, the arrangement being such as to cause said arm and roller by engagement of the roller in said guideways to continue the movement of the table between the point of disengagement of the pinion 18 from the rack 19 and the engagement of the cogged arm 22 with the rack 20, and vice versa, thereby carrying said toothed parts into and out of engagement with their respective racks, so as to render the reciprocatory movement even and continuous.

It will be noted that the mutilated pinion 18 being comparatively close to the axis of the shaft 6 will when engaging the rack 19 drive the traveling bed 17 forward at a comparatively low rate of speed, while the cogged arm 22, describing a greater concentric arc, will when engaging its rack 20 move said geld e purpose of this arrangement is to feed the bed forward slowly while the transverse or woof wire is being woven onto the longitudinal or warp-wires of the fabric and quickly returned into position for asucceeding operation after each strand of Woof-wire has been woven into place.

The longitudinal or warp 'wires 28 of the fabric pass through a series of tubes 29, which extend longitudinally of the machine,as shown in Fig. 16, whose opposite ends are secured in the rotary heads 30 and 31, respectively, which are seated to revolve in recesses in the parallel bars 32 and 33 at the opposite ends of the frame that extend transversely thereof. Mounted loosely upon each of the heads 31 is a pinion 34, each pinion having a rectangular hub portion 35, provided with the opposed diametrical slots 36, as shown in Fig. 19, for the purpose of locking said pinions to the ro-' tary heads, as hereinafter explained. An intermittent rotary movement is imparted to the pinions 34 by means of the rack-sections 37, which are mounted upon the links 38, forming an endless carrier which passes over anglefaced wheels 39 at one end of the machine, mounted upon the shafts 40, journaled at their opposite ends in the movable bed or frame 17 at opposite sides of said frame and extending longitudinally thereof. At the opposite ends of the shafts 40 are similar wheels 41, adapted to support an endless carrier composed of the joined links 42 and which moves in conjunction with the endless carrier composed of the joined links 38. Movement is imparted to said carriers through the long gear 13, which meshes with a pinion 44 on the hub of gear 45, which latter meshes with a gear 46 In the outer on the shaft 10, thereby rotating said shaft and turning the wheels 39 and n to impart movement to said endless carriers. As the carrier formed by the links 38 is caused to travel through the rotation of the shaft $0 the rack-sections 37 carried thereby will engage the pinions 31 and rotate them intermittently in succession.

The woofwires 47 are carried into the machine in straight lengths, being fed from a continuous strand and severed in proper lengths by any suitable means. (Not shown.) To provide for carrying the woof-wires in straight lengths or strands, shuttles are provided, which comprise long tubes a8, that extend longitudinally of the inachine,into which the woof or transverse wire is fed, as hereinafter explained. Each shuttle at opposite ends provided with the lateral wings 51, projecting from opposite sides and carrying at their ends the antifriction-rollers 52, adapted to lie between the flanges 53 of the rotary heads 30 and 31 when the shuttles are in the position shown in Figs. 7 and 16. Said rollers assist in guiding the shuttles into place and in overcoming friction as the shuttles pass from one set of rotary heads to the other between said parallel bars in the operation of weaving. \Vhen the shuttle has received its woof-strand of wire. it is placed by the travelingcarriers,as hereinafter explained, so that the square terminals thereon will enter the slots 51 in the flanges of the rotary heads 30 and 31 to cause the shuttle to lie approximately parallel to the tube 29, carrying the warp-wire. Asthe shuttle enters the slots in the flanges of the rotary heads a projecting end of the square terminal 50 enters the slot 36 in the rectangular hub of the pinion 34, thereby locking said pinion to the head 31 and causing said head to rotate when said pinion is driven through the engagement of the rack 37 therewith. The rotation of the head 31 imparts a similar movement to the head 30 through the medium of the connecting-tu be 2%), whereby both heads are caused to rotate in unison and the shuttle to rotate about said tube. To provide for holding and engaging the projecting end of the woof-wire as the shuttle is fed into the machine, the interposed jaws are employed, as shown more clearly in Figs. 13 and 14. These jaws are mounted upon one of the bars 32, and the upper jaw is held down by a coiled spring 56. Said jaws are so set that as the shuttle moves into position in the rotary heads the end engages the upper jaw and raises it to allow the end of the wire 17 to enter between said jaws, so that when it has reached its position in the rotary heads the spring will force the upper jaw downward and clamp the end of said wire, whereby upon a rotation of the shuttle the woof-wire carried thereby will be wrapped around the longitudinal wire, as will be well understood. The rotation of the shuttle, as before stated, is caused through the engagement of one of the rack-sections 37 with the pinions 34s at the time when the shuttle is lying in the rotary heads of the corresponding pinion. and th end thereof is locked in the slot of the hub of said pinion, as shown in Fig. T, the length of the rack being such as to cause the pinion to rotate a sutlicient number of times to make three wraps of the woofwire around the warpwire. The shuttle enters the rotary heads from the right, as shown in Fig. 11, and after said heads have been rotated to wrap the woof-wire around the warp-wire the rotary movement of the heads is arrested with the shuttle upon the opposite sides of the heads, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 11, in position to be carried to the successive set of rotary heads to wrap the woof-wire carried by the shuttle around the succeeding warpwire, the operation continuing until the shuttle has been moved across the machine and the woof wire carried thereby has been wrapped around each of the succeeding warpwires of the fabric. The means for carrying the shuttle from one set of rotary heads to the other and depositing the shuttles in said heads is mounted upon the links 38 and 42 of the endless carriers and comprises the brackets 57, projecting laterally from said links and inclosed with the links in the guideway 58, mounted upon the upper frame or bed and supported by the bars 32 and 33, which bars, as will be seen, are slotted at 59 to allow of the longitudinal passage of the shuttles from one set of heads to the other. Upon the brackets 57, projecting from the links of the carrier-chains, are the studs 60, between which is journaled a short rock-shaft 61. (See Fig. 15.) Projecting from said shaft is a short lug 62 and an arm 63. Pivoted to the outer end of said arm is a gate 6+1, adapted to move vertically through the bracket 57. Mounted upon the rock-shaft 61 is a spring 65, whose tension is normally exerted to hold the free end of the arm 63 depressed. Also journaled between suitable supports upon the bracket 57 is a dog 66, having an upwardly-projecting end 67 and a downwardly-projecting hooked end 68, which extends through said bracket.

Depending within the guideway 58 are the tripping-blocks 69 and 70. These trippingblocks are suspended from the wall of the guideways by means of the bolts 71, which pass through the slots T) in said ways, whereby said blocks are rendered longitudinally adjustable and are so positioned that the blocks 70 will stand in the path of the upper end of the dog 66, while the blocks 69 will stand in the path of the lugs 62 on the rock-shaft 61. Upon the hub of the dog 66 is a coiled spring 73, whose tension is normally exerted to swing the hook 10 of said dog outwardly toward the gate 61. \Vhen the gates 64 are down, they engage one face of the wings 51 at the ends of the shuttle,

ing position, as shown in Fig. 1.

1 while the hooked ends of the dogs by reason l of the springs 73 are caused to enter thenotches 74 in the faces of the wings of the shuttle, as clearly shown in Fig. 20, whereby the shuttles are supported and carried by the traveling conveyers. This is the position of the shuttles as they are returning on the up per side of the chains or conveyers into work- As the shuttles enter the machine carried by said conveyers they are suspended from the lower side of the traveling chains and are presented thereby to the initial set of heads 30 and 31, as shown in Fig. 16, the square terminals 50 and 51 of the shuttles entering the channels 54 in the flanges of said heads, at which time the gates 64 are raised by contact of the lug 62 with the tripping-block 69 and the dogs 66 are carried free from engagement with the wings of said shuttles by engagement of the upwardly-extending end portions of said dogs with the tripping-blocks 70, as clearly shown in Fig. 11. At this time one of the smoothfaced blocks 75, which are intenposed between the rack-sections 37 and supported by the links 38, engages the flat surface 76 on the hub 35 of the initial pinion 34, so as to hold the slot 36 therein in registering alinement with the slots 54 in the flanges of the rotary heads, so that the square terminals of the shuttle may enter said registering slots to place the shuttle in the rotary heads and at the same time lock the head 31 to said pinion, whereby the rotation of the pinion by engagement with the rack-section 37 will revolve the heads and shuttle, as before explained. After the shuttle has completed its rotation to wrap the stay wire upon one strand of the longitudinal wires it will lie upon the left side of the rotary head in position to be engaged by a succeeding set of dogs and gates carried by the chains as they pass from engagement with their respective tripping-blocks, as shown in Fig. 20, whereby the shuttle is grasped and carried from one set of heads into the succeeding set of heads, which heads at that time are held from rotation by the block 7 5, which engages the flat faces of the hubs of their respective pinions, restraining said hubs from movement while the transfer of the shuttle is being made. When the shuttle has been deposited in the second set of heads, said heads are rotated by the succeeding rack-section, and so on the operation continues as the shuttle passes across the loom in the operation of weaving the crosswire upon the longitudinal wire of the fabric. After a shuttle has completed its transverse movement across the machine it is grasped between the gates 64 and the dogs 66 and carried around by the endless conveyers to the point of starting, while a succeeding shuttle enters the machine and continues the operation of weaving, there being as many shuttles employed as are required to make the operation of weaving continuous, a shuttle always being ready to enter the machine as soon as the preceding shuttle has passed therefrom.

The passage of the warp or longitudinal strands through the tubes or needles 29, which are supported at their opposite ends in the rotary heads 30 and 31, and through said rotary heads as well, is made continuous by securing the outer ends of said strands to a.rotary drum 77, as shown in Fig. 2, which is driven through the medium of a pulley 78 or other suitable means connected with the shaft 79 of said drum, whose speed is so regulated as to draw the warp-strands evenly and continuously through the machine. Because of this continuous movement of the warp-wires it is necessary in order to weave the woof-wires straight across the fabric that the weavingmechanism travel forward with the warp- Wires during the weaving operation. This forward movement is provided for through the traveling frame or bed 17, which is car ried forward at a rate of speed coincident with the movement of the longitudinal wires while the transverse wires are being woven thereon by engagement of the mutilated pinion 18 with the rack 19, as before explained, and is returned to the initial position after each transverse strand is woven onto the longitudinal wires by engagement of the cogged arm 22 with the rack 20. As the bed or frame moves forward in the operation of weaving, the endless chains or carriers which operate the weaving mechanism are driven through the medium of the shaft 11 and its pinion 10, which at that time meshes with the teeth of the mutilated gear 7 on the main shaft, the long gear 13 accommodating this longitudinal movement of the upper frame or bed by enabling the gear 43, which meshes therewith and which drives the train that operates said parts, to slide thereon. When a shuttle has completed its transverse passage across the machine, the pinion 10 ceases to be rotated because of the absence of teeth upon a portion of the periphery of the gear 7, thereby temporarily stopping the movement of the endless carriers while the upper frame or bed is being returned to its initial position. The distance which the upper frame travels in its reciprocatory movement is equal to the space of the transverse wires of the fabric, whereby said wires are accurately spaced.

The transverse or stay wires, as before stated, are introduced into the shuttles in straight strands or lengths; the wire to form said stays being fed into the. shuttles by means of the grooved wheels 80, (shown more clearly in Fig. 4,) which run in peripheral contact and between which the wire 47 is adapted to pass as said wheels revolve. These feed-wheels 80 are driven through the medium of the meshing spur-gears 81, the lower one of which having upon its shaft 82 a pinion 83, which meshes with a beveled-gear 84, as

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shown in Fig. 18, on a stub-shaft 85, carrying a spur-gear 86, which in turn meshes with the long gear 1% on the shaft 12, which is driven through the beveled pinion 9 thereon and the mutilated gear 8. The parts are so ar ranged that the teeth of the gear 8 engage the pinion 9 when the upper frame or table is making the return movement, at which time a shuttle is in position to receive the wire 47, which is carried by the feed-wheels into the shuttle (see Fig. 17) by the rotation of the connected gears at a time when the shuttle is at rest because of the cessation of movement of the endless carriers. The operation of these parts is so timed that when the strand 4:7 has been fed into a shuttle the rotation of the feedwheels will cease through the passage of the teeth of the mutilated gear from engagement with the pinion 9, at which time the mutilated gear T will engage the pinion 10, thereby beginning the operation of weaving by carrying the filled shuttle through the machine, as before described, the strand 47 being severed by any suitable means (not shown) as the shuttle passes into the machine. The outer ends of the shuttles are each provided with two concavcd rollers 87, between which the staywire 457 runs as it is drawn from strand to strand of the longitudinal wires and wrapped thereon.

To prevent the shuttle 4:8 from springing away from the tubes 29, carrying the longitudinal wires, as the shuttle is rotated about said tubes, a collar 88 is mounted upon each tube, which is provided with the latcrallyex tending wings 90, between which the shuttletube I8 is embraced, as shown in Fig. 21, whereby the shuttle is held againstspringing away from said tubes 29 through the centrifugal force exerted by the rotation of the shuttle.

Having thus fully set forth my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

I. In a machine for weaving wire fabric, the combination with the means for carrying the longitudinal wires through the machine, of the shuttles adapted to receive the transverse wires in straight lengths, means for introducing the transverse wires into the shuttles, means for carrying the shuttles containing said wires transversely of the longitudinal wires, and weaving said transverse wires upon the longitudinal wires from the shuttles as they are carried through the machine.

2. In a machine for weaving wire fabric, the combination with the means for moving the longitudinal wires through the machine, of means for introducingthe transverse wire into the machine in a straight strand, and weaving said straight strand from one end only thereof in succession upon the longitudinal wires to form a woven fabric.

3. In a machine for weaving wire fabric, the combination with means for carrying the longitudinal wires continuously through the machine, of means for introducing the stay-wire in a straight strand into the machine, and weavingsaid straightstraml from one end only in succession onto the longitudinal wires during the passage of said longitudinal wires through the machine.

i. In a machinefor weaving wire fabric, the combination with the means for carrying the longitudinal wires through the machine, of a shuttle adapted to receive a straight length of wire, means for feeding a strand of wire into said shuttle, means for carrying the shuttle through the machine transversely of the longitudinal wires, and weaving said strand upon the longitudinal wires during their passage through the machine.

5. In a machine for weaving wire fabric, the combination with means for passing the longitudinal wires through the machine, of a series of tubes through which said wires pass, a rotary head at each end of said tube, a shuttle for receiving a straight strand of wire adapted to engage and rotate with said haeds, means for rotating the heads and shuttle about the axis of the tubes carrying the longitudinal wires, and means for carrying the shuttle to each of said tubes.

6. In a machine for weaving wire fabric, the combination with means for carrying the longitudinal wires through the machine, of means for introducing the transverse wires in straight strands, carryingsaid strands parallel with the longitudinal wires, rotating them about the axis of the longitudinal wires to wind at portion of said strands upon each of said longitudinal wires, and means for carrying said strands transversely of the longitudinal wires, during the operation of weaving.

T. In a machine for weaving wire fabric, the combination with the means for carrying the longitudinal wires through the machine, of the rotary heads through which said wires pass, shuttles adapted to receive the transverse wires in straight lengths and to engage in and rotate with said heads to wrap the transverse wires around the longitiulinal wires, endless conveyers adapted to engage and carry said shuttles through the machine during the op eration of weaving, and to return said shuttles to the starting-point, and means for op erating said conveyers.

8. In a machine for weaving wire fabric, the combination with means for carrying the longitudinal wires through the machine, of a series of rotary heads through which said wires pass, a shuttle adapted to carry the transverse wire in a straight strand, and to engage in and rotate with said heads about the axis of each longitudinal wire, means for carrying said shuttle, means operated by the shuttle for connecting each head in succession with the driving mechanism and means for intermittently rotating said heads.

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' 7 9. In a machine for Weaving Wire fabric, the

combination With the means for carrying the longitudinal Wires through the machine, of a shuttle adapted to carry the stay-Wire in a straight strand parallel With the longitudinal Wires, a traveling carrier for conveying the shuttle through the machine, pinions for rotating the shuttle about the axis of each of the longitudinal Wires to Wrap the stay-Wire upon said longitudinal Wires, rack-sections mounted upon said carrier for intermittently rotating said pinions, and means for driving said carrier.

10. In a machine for Weaving Wire fabric, the combination with the means for passing the longitudinal Wires through the machine, of the rotary heads through which said Wires pass, a shuttle adapted to receive the transverse Wire in a straight strand, a traveling carrier having means for automatical engagement with said shuttle and disengagement therefrom, said carrier adapted to place the shuttle in each of the rotary heads and means mounted on said carrier for successively rotating said heads to Wrap the transverse Wire upon each of the longitudinal wires.

11. In a machine for Weaving Wire fabric, the combination With the means for passing the longitudinal Wires through the machine, of a series of rotary heads adapted to receive said longitudinal Wires, a shuttle carrying the stay-Wire adapted to be rotated With said heads to Wrap the stay-Wire around the longitudinal Wires, means for carrying the shuttle transversely of the machine, a reciprocatory frame carrying the heads and shuttle, means for moving said frame coincident With the movement of the longitudinal Wires during the operation of Weaving, and means for quickly returning said frame after the passage of the shuttle across the longitudinal Wires.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

JAMES W. SNEDEKER.

Witnesses: v GEO. L. BENNETT, F. E. OSGOOD. 

